I raised stunning young ladies, but they all wanted to possess me.

Xu Huan's pupils suddenly contracted.

This is a calamity.

Intelligent disaster.

It was talking to him, in Bactrian, speaking slowly but clearly, like someone who had studied Chinese for many years.

"How did you get in?"

"This is inside the aircraft carrier; all the passageways are equipped with rune detection."

"Rune Detection".

The calamity tilted its head, and the corners of its mouth turned up even more.

"That kind of thing can stop mindless beasts, but it can't stop me."

"Your junior sister is still on that man's bed, can't you smell it?"

"Her spiritual energy still lingers in the corridor."

"It's cold, like snow."

"What a wonderful taste."

Xu Huan's fingers trembled violently on the hilt of the sword.

He should draw his sword.

He should have cut the monster in two right here.

He is an S-rank sword immortal on the combat power list, and his sword can cleave through Titan-level armor.

But he didn't move.

Because the calamity then uttered a sentence that pierced his most vulnerable spot like a needle.

"Gu Yan is dead."

"You're not even as good as a dead person."

"Now another deputy has emerged, but he still can't compare."

"Pathetic, pitiful."

"No matter how fast your sword is, what can it cut through?"

Xu remained silent.

The tip of the longsword trembled slightly in the darkness, like a piece of paper being blown by the wind.

The calamity continued speaking in that slow, sticky tone.

"Your human alliance won't last long."

"The fifth line of defense will be torn apart just like the previous ones."

"Everyone will die then."

"But you can live."

"Our race admires the strong."

"Your sword contains resentment, desire, and ambition that you yourself dare not admit."

"Join us and you'll get everything you want."

Xu stared intently at the pair of golden vertical pupils in the darkness.

He opened his mouth, but his throat was so dry that he couldn't make a sound.

The word was right on the tip of my tongue, it was almost out of my mouth.

But in the end, he closed his eyes and sheathed his sword again.

His chest heaved violently, as if he had just finished a long-distance run with no end in sight.

"impossible."

"I am human."

"I am from the Pei family's Sword Sect."

"I will not associate with calamity."

The calamity was not angry; it simply slowly grinned.

"what ever."

"But remember, the next time you are trampled underfoot, I will be right behind you."

"You only need to turn around to see me."

The darkness swallowed the outline again.

The cold light in the pipes came back on, as if the thing had never existed.

Xu was still leaning against the bulkhead, panting heavily.

His hands were trembling, from his fingertips all the way to his shoulders.

In Gu Yan's cabin.

Pei Yuran had already sat up from Gu Yan's arms.

She combed her loose long hair with her fingers, straightened the neckline of her plain white dress, and then picked up the long sword placed at the foot of the bed and placed it across her knees.

An ice-blue sword tassel hung down from the hilt, gleaming with a very faint blue light in the dim lamplight.

She didn't speak, but just sat there quietly, like an ice sculpture that had just emerged from the snow.

Just as Gu Yan was about to say something, the cabin door was kicked open from the outside.

The alloy door panel bounced back after hitting the bulkhead and was kicked away again.

Lin Jinyu stood at the door, still wearing her dark blue combat uniform, her long golden hair cascading over her shoulders, and two clusters of flames burning in her golden pupils, almost overflowing.

Two orderly soldiers were following behind her, trying to stop her, but they were so frightened by a single glance from her that they took three steps back.

Pei Yuran.

Lin Jinyu's gaze swept over Gu Yan, then fixed on Pei Yuran's face.

"I heard you came to see him."

"I came here specifically to check on him because I was afraid you'd freeze him into an icicle."

"And then what happened?"

"You certainly know how to pick a spot; you came straight to the bed."

Pei Yuran didn't even raise her head, but simply flicked the sword tassel with her fingertips.

Her voice was as cold as usual.

"It's on the bed."

"You have a problem with that?"

"Of course I have an opinion."

Lin Jinyu strode in, his combat boots thumping heavily on the alloy floor.

"I guarded him for three years, waited for him for three years, and turned the entire Great Xia Dynasty upside down."

"You're something else, you've only been at the Fifth Line of Defense for a day and you've already snuggled into his bed."

"Pei Yuran, have you no shame?"

Pei Yuran finally raised her head and glanced at her.

Those icy blue pupils held no emotion, like two glaciers that would never melt.

"You waited for three years, and I searched for three years."

"You're on the defensive line, and so am I."

"No one has the right to judge anyone else."

"Besides, he hugged me first."

Lin Jinyu suddenly turned to Gu Yan, her eyes like two red-hot knives.

"You hugged her?"

Gu Yan sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Lin Jinyu, who was in a rage at the door, and then at Pei Yuran, who was as cold as ice beside her.

He realized that whatever he said was wrong.

If I say I hugged her, Lin Jinyu will explode.

If I don't hug her, Pei Yuran will be cold.

He could only raise both hands at the same time, making a gesture of surrender.

"I can explain."

"Shut up."

Lin Jinyu and Pei Yuran spoke at the same time.

Then the two looked at each other, and the temperature in the air suddenly dropped several degrees.

A cluster of golden flames rose from Lin Jinyu's palm, while a thin layer of frost condensed on Pei Yuran's sword sheath.

Gu Yan sat between the two, feeling her left side burning up and her right side freezing up.

"Go outside and fight."

"It's too small here; I can't use my sword properly."

Pei Yuran's tone remained calm, but the frost on the sword sheath had already spread to her fingertips.

Lin Jinyu sneered.

"Scared?"

"If you're scared, don't try to crawl into bed like other people do."

"Say one more word."

I'll freeze your mouth shut.

The golden flames in Lin Jinyu's palm had reached their peak.

That flame was no ordinary fire; it was the fire elemental essence she had honed over three years in the Nordic war zone through hundreds of battles, and its temperature was so high that the surrounding air was violently distorted.

She stood at the cabin door, her long golden hair flying wildly in the heat wave generated by her superpower, her pupils burning with two balls of golden light that almost overflowed.

Pei Yuran.

"I've put up with you for a long time."

Pei Yuran did not move.

She remained seated on the edge of the bed, her longsword resting across her knees, but the frost on the scabbard had spread across her entire right arm.

Her arm was covered by a thin layer of ice, and the spiritual energy flowing in her veins beneath the ice was clearly visible, like countless tiny blue lights slowly moving under the ice.

"Then you don't have to put up with it anymore."

She stood up.

The temperature in the entire cabin dropped by more than ten degrees in that instant, and Gu Yan's breath condensed into white mist in the air.

The steaming cup of coffee on the bedside table visibly froze over with ice.

Lin Jinyu sneered, pushed off with her feet, and rushed towards Pei Yuran like a burning meteor.